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The Clean/Messy Continuum>Beware, graphic hoarder talk lurks therein
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Sally, la reina
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Jul 31, 2012 04:05PM
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Sally wrote: "I'd like to visit Heidi's house."You say that, Sally, as if cat fur on everything is comparable to dog fur on everything...
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Intriguing.
I'm glad to see that everyone is willing to motivate me to clean my room.
Lobstergirl wrote: "if I blew the pictures up, you could probably see the dust on every surface because I despise dustingIntriguing."
Although, I may have vacuumed it.
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That sounds scary.
Sally wrote: "That sounds scary."Exactly.
Heidi wrote: "Riona wrote: "That's messy???/never posting pictures of my house on the internet."
Nah, not really (except if I blew the pictures up, you could probably see the dust on every surface because I..."
I'd have to move too much stuff if I wanted to dust any surfaces.
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I have discovered the art of getting my son to dust. It's a task he does without too much complaint and little instruction. I should have had more kids.
My house is so dirty I don't know where to start to get it clean. It looks like an all-male freshmen dorm.
~Geektastic~ wrote: "My house is so dirty I don't know where to start to get it clean. It looks like an all-male freshmen dorm."Oh, that bad? Someone's been barfing and peeing in the hallway?
Cynthia wrote: " ~Geektastic~ wrote: "My house is so dirty I don't know where to start to get it clean. It looks like an all-male freshmen dorm."Oh, that bad? Someone's been barfing and peeing in the hallway?"
The cats, from time to time. Although I suppose it's more accurate to say it's as messy as a boy's dorm, rather than as dirty.
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I finally had the garden guy lop the hedge . It had grown so much I couldn't open the front door without getting whipped by the branches.Now the winter sun warms the front room and there is more light inside. There had been a couple of spiders inside too, so I'm hoping less hedge means fewer spiders.
I also had the front garden weeded.
Mr evie catches them in the spider jar and takes them outside. I stand on the lounge while all that is going on.
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evie wrote: "I finally had the garden guy lop the hedge . It had grown so much I couldn't open the front door without getting whipped by the branches.Now the winter sun warms the front room and there is more ..."
You've got a garden guy? Jealous.
He's not my very own garden guy. I have to share him with the other people in my apartment block.
My room got messy again, so I'm working on cleaning it.
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I watched the most disgusting episode of Hoarders where a guy had some rabbits....which he did not keep caged. The fuckers just ran around the house. And bred. And chewed through drywall all over the house (which was a rental) and shat everywhere. They were basically living not just in the house but in the walls of the house, and in the walls behind the bathtub and the water heater, and were chewing through electrical wires. Rabbit feces was in every room, covering everything. And he and his wife (who also hoarded other stuff so had to walk amongst canyons of teetering garbage) lived in the middle of all the fecal matter.
His wife was on Social Security disability and was severely overweight and he was very controlling and would not let her do anything on her own.
But fecal matter! It's one thing when it's only on the ground and only your shoes are in it - but it dries and becomes airborne and you breathe it in. These people were living in a house where fecal matter was in the air, all the time.
And then the landlords came to visit and didn't evict them, but gave them time to clean up.
It was an episode the featured two properties and families, and that wasn't even the more dysfunctional family.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Entropy.I watched the most disgusting episode of Hoarders where a guy had some rabbits....which he did not keep caged. The fuckers just ran around the house. And bred. And chewed through drywa..."
Animal Hoarders is the worst. I feel so badly for all of the animals, who had no choice in the matter.
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Her outdoor chickens were mostly fine, but she also kept chickens in tiny cages in the same trailer that she lived in, and these chickens were in bad shape. And she kept ducks outside in cages, not realizing that ducks need to be on fucking WATER. The woman told animal control that if she put the ducks on a body of water, she would lose their eggs. So the ducks were standing on the wire mesh of the cage, which was severely damaging their feet, and they could barely walk. Every time animal control tried to tell her which animals were being severely abused, she screamed that she would lose the food product the animal provided, and it was her money, not theirs.
This woman had also abused all her children; I think there were 16 in all.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Entropy.I watched the most disgusting episode of Hoarders where a guy had some rabbits....which he did not keep caged. The fuckers just ran around the house. And bred. And chewed through drywa..."
No wonder that you are always dusting!
Lobstergirl wrote: "The other woman kept goats, ducks, chickens, and turkeys. Most of her goats were fine, although one had caught its leg in some fencing a year previous and the wound had never been treated and so fo..."I can't watch that stuff. My skin starts to crawl and I get all depressed.
I can't watch it. The abuse of the animals is too much.
I cleaned up all my potted plants today. I trimmed stuff , repotted,potted, swept, relocated and chucked stuff.I am so relieved that I only needed a couple of weeks off work to regain enough energy to do it. I thought I was too old and couldn't care less.
Recently handed down a large sectional sofa, a 4' round kitchen table, and four kitchen chairs to my daughter's friends. It's nice to have a bit more floor space.Let's see, what can I give away next...?
I'm cleaning the bathroom . It's about
I need to clean mine, Evie! We've had bad colds/flu at our house for two weeks now. It's all I can do to drag myself to work, I'm too tired. Blah.
Phil, I do love that pic too. I am exactly like that, only maybe with too hippos. I will break a limb to get away, then yell for Honey to come kill it. It was a condition pre-marriage; all spider killing is his job.
Phil, I do love that pic too. I am exactly like that, only maybe with too hippos. I will break a limb to get away, then yell for Honey to come kill it. It was a condition pre-marriage; all spider killing is his job.
Rearranged my room this weekend. It has a better flow now.
I've been cleaning in preparation for the baby shower. We needed the guest rooms cleaned and readied, as at least five people will be staying with us for a few days. Today I finished the last of the bedrooms, so tomorrow is touch-up on the bathrooms. Then I get the kitchen, nook and dining room, and finally the living room. I'm having Mrs. Phil clean the back patio while I pick up all the stuff we're getting from Costco.How in the world did my daughter find 65 people to invite to a shower? I had no idea she knew so many.
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Huge! Eighteen shower heads, hitting from all directions. This thing is amazing!
Sounds like quite a party! How do you keep the cake from getting soggy?
There's a showcase cake in the center, sealed in an airtight glass case on a rotating stand. The "real" cake is served as you exit the shower, wrapped in a luxurious robe.
Phil wrote: "There's a showcase cake in the center, sealed in an airtight glass case on a rotating stand. The "real" cake is served as you exit the shower, wrapped in a luxurious robe."Downside: seeing 65 of your friends naked. I'll take my cake to go, thanks.
Why is the cake wrapped in a luxurious robe?
I didn't say, "the 'real' cake is dressed in a luxurious robe."I said, "...as YOU (now the subject of the sentence) exit the shower, wrapped..."
Nice try, though.
It was a good try.
Am, depends on your friends, I suppose.
Am, depends on your friends, I suppose.
I wanna see that big shower! I'll skip the cake, thanks. I barely came up with 65 guests for my wedding!
